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- Medicare complaints are big business
- Insurance chiefs vote against industry
- Nurses doctors at odds on politics
- New concept to counter HMOs?
- Hospital chain paid kickbacks: suit
- Health execs offer 'solutions'
- Keys hospital unhappy with HMA
- Insurers stop writing for kids
- Doctor riles family with gun question
| Medicare complaints are big business Posted: 11/24/2010 © Tampa Tribune Tampa-based Florida Medical Quality Assurance Inc. is one of the biggest federal contractors in the state. Its job? Dealing with the complaints of 3.6 million Medicare patients. |
| Insurance chiefs vote against industry Posted: By Jim Saunders and Julie Appleby 10/21/2010 Health News Florida and Kaiser Health News The nation's insurance commissioners, meeting in Orlando, today adopted recommended rules on how much of the premium insurers must spend on patients. They shot down pro-industry amendments, including one from Florida's Kevin McCarty. |
| Nurses doctors at odds on politics Posted: By Jim Saunders and Carol Gentry 10/13/2010 © Health News Florida Anyone who hasn't noticed the big difference between the world views of doctors and nurses could catch on just by looking at their endorsements in the Florida governor's race. |
| Posted: By Jim Saunders, Phil Galewitz and Jenny Gold Health News Florida and Kaiser Health News Faced with a likely expansion of Medicaid HMOs, the Florida Medical Association is looking at a new possibility to give doctors more control over patient care: "accountable care organizations." |
| Hospital chain paid kickbacks: suit Posted: By Mike Wells 8/10/2010 © Health News Florida Health Management Associates, a hospital chain based in Naples, offered doctors money, free rent, and even jet trips to a golf tournament in return for referring Medicare patients, a former HMA executive says. Editor's note: corrections added. |
| Health execs offer 'solutions' Posted: By Nancy McVicar 8/4/2010 © Health News Florida A state senator's "Health Care Solutions Tour" kicked off in Miami today with a slide show that hit the major Republican talking points, including warnings about the cost of "Obamacare" and growth in Medicaid. Public officials and health-industry executives spoke, but no patients or advocates were there. |
| Keys hospital unhappy with HMA Posted: 7/30/2010 © Miami Herald What to do with Fisherman's Hospital, a facility that has only a handful of beds filled and flies all its chest-pain patients to Miami? |
| Insurers stop writing for kids Posted: 7/24/2010 © Associated Press In Florida, UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children as individuals, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty says, because they worry that only the sick will sign up. |
| Doctor riles family with gun question Posted: 7/24/2010 © Ocala Star-Banner One mother who refused to answer when pediatrician Chris Okonkwo asked whether the family has a gun says it's none of his business. He says the safety of his patients is his business. |
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